György Bródy

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Olympic medal record
Men's Water Polo
Gold medal – first place 1932 Los Angeles Team competition
Gold medal – first place 1936 Berlin Team competition

György Bródy (July 21, 1908 in Budapest – August 5, 1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa) was a Hungarian water polo player.

Career

At the 1928 Summer Olympics he was a reserve player of the Hungarian water polo team, but did not compete in a match of the 1928 tournament.

He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

In 1932 he was part of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal. He played two matches as goalkeeper.

Four years later he won the gold medal again with the Hungarian team. At the Berlin Games he played six matches as goalkeeper.

Bródy was Jewish; he was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.[1]

See also

References

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